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Soundwave on 28 April 2016
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bigtakilla said:
curl-6 said:

Because it can barely be called victory really.

The hopes of the 2017 crowd were pinned on Wii U getting another year of support. Clearly, that isn't happening. Hence, all that was really won was a bet on an internet forum. If you were hoping for 12 more months of software support (which honestly was never going to happen) that's a poor consolation prize.

Ultimately, we all lost.

Not for everyone. I merely believed it wouldn't launch this year. Maybe why victory tastes amazing for me.

Pretty sure you were quite adamant on a the mythical "5th year" for Wii U that would include a new Metroid game just a few weeks ago. 

GameMaster87 I think was talking about something like 12 (lol) new Wii U titles in a 5th year.

The last "real" internal Nintendo projects for Wii U started in 2013 -- things like Splatoon. It's clear by 2014 they internally basically killed any serious support for the system and have been working on NX ever since (this is pretty much right around where Mr. Iwata starts making comments left and right about some type of unifid style game platform).

This is what I also tried to stress to people like Nem, NX launching whether it was in 2016 or 2017 was irrelevant, to make either launch date, game development for such a platform would have to begin by 2014 at the latest ... which meant bye bye Wii U. But a lot of people did not want to hear that, and that's pretty much exactly what happened and why you will be getting 1 whopping Wii U game at E3 this year (a game that isn't even predictably exclusive).